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Lifeless
Written By
Kieran
Tyler
Kieran Tyler
KGT100@hotmail.co.uk
INT. – SCHOOL CORRIDOR
– AFTERNOON
An over-the-shoulder
shot follows a boy, AARON CHIPLEY, as he walks towards a door.
SUPERIMPOSE TITLES: Lone Warrior Productions presents
A Film Starring Kieran
Tyler
And Jay Dobinson
INT. – SCHOOL ICT
SUITE – AFTERNOON
A canted angle shows
a boy, JASON HERLEY, sitting alone working at a computer, he seems to be the
only one in the room. A door opens behind him, AARON – his best friend - walks
in.
AARON
Hey
Jason... it’s like 4.30. what are you still doing here?
JASON
Ah,
I’ve got a load of Chemistry coursework to do. Miss- wait, what time is it?!
AARON
About
4.30, why? Is there somewhere you need to be mate?
Jason mutters under
his breath while he panics and packs his things away
JASON
I
have to go, I’m meant to be home for my guitar lesson now.
Aaron laughs
AARON
Well,
good luck with that, I’ll see you tomorrow for English mate.
Jason isn’t paying
much attention
JASON
Yeah ok man I’ll see you then…
Jason rushes out the
door and starts to run home
EXT. – ROADS –
AFTERNOON
A rock soundtrack
starts; soft at first then builds and builds. There is a mixture of shots
showing Jason running down roads and alleyways, deciding on a route as he goes.
Extreme close ups on his feet, over the shoulder shots to show some of his
route, big close ups to show his emotions.
EXT. – INDUSTRIAL
UNIT - AFTERNOON
Jason turns down an
alleyway into an industrial centre to try and save time. There is a cut to a point
of view shot in which we see what Jason sees. Jason runs around a corner into a
car. The music stops and there is a flash of white light as he hits the car
bonnet and slides to the floor. The camera is facing the sky and it slowly fades
to white.
TITLE (IN BLACK):
Lifeless
INT. – WHITE ROOM
FADES IN: Jason has
his eyes closed and then as he opens them the camera starts to pull out. Jason
gets up and we see a medium close up of his face. The camera very quickly pulls
out and does 180 degrees very fast rotation around Jason, then quickly pushes
in to the back of his head. We see another Point of view shot, in which Jason
runs at a wall in an attempt to escape the alien room. There is a cut to a shot
just behind Jason as he hits the wall and falls to the floor.
JASON
WHERE AM I?!
The camera turns 90
degrees to show AARON appearing next to him.
AARON
Well,
this is your mind… Not much is it… (Laughs)
JASON
Wha-!
Aaron? What are you doing here?
AARON
What?
Oh, yes, well, the thing is… I’m not Aaron…
JASON
Wha-?!
No of course you are! We’ve been friends since Primary School, I’d know you
anywhere.
AARON
Yes,
that is why I have chosen to take this form… you see I am… kind of… your sub
consciousness… I mean while your body is trying to figure out what happened to
you, I’m here… y’know… making sure you don’t go insane…
JASON
(bewildered)
What?
AARON
Well,
we think you were hit by a car, but we aren’t sure really, all we know is that
you have been injured a lot and we are trying to repair you… in the meantime,
I’m here to take care of you…
JASON
(Still
a little confused) OK… erm…
AARON
Would
you like to change to another bit of scenery… this white room thing is a bit
boring don’t you think…
JASON
Wait…
You can do that?!
AARON
Well
yeah… let me see… would you like to go to your bedroom…?
INT. – JASON’S
BEDROOM
JASON
(shocked)
I… erm… no, it’s to strange, just put me back in the white room, I may go
insane just trying to get my head around how you did that…
AARON
Oh
ok then…
INT. – WHITE ROOM
AARON
Well
would you like me to change to another person then… would that help? Maybe your
brother Ben?
AARON changes into BEN
BEN
Is
this better, or would you like me to change to someone else?
JASON
Erm…
can you change to someone else, my brother will just annoy me after a while…
Ben
OK
then… erm… maybe Jimmy from Physics?
BEN changes into
JIMMY
JIMMY
Is
that better?
JASON
Erm…
it’s Ok, but Jimmy is kinda ‘nerdy’ and he isn’t as fun as other friends… Why
don’t you just change back into Aaron… At least I know that he won’t annoy me
after a while…
JIMMY
Fair
enough… it’s your mind…
JIMMY turns back
into AARON
AARON
So,
erm… what happened right before you lost consciousness…?
JASON
Well
I’m not sure, all I remember is turning a corner, then receiving a lot of pain
in my side… and I hit the floor… Wait?! You said that I was hit by a car!
AARON
Yes
that is what we think, but we aren’t sure at the moment… I just wanted to see
if you had anything to add to what we have ‘on file’.
JASON
Oh,
Ok then? What files would they be?
AARON
Well
the files detailing all of what your body receives, whether that be
information, pain, or even a little thing like if you notice a bug on the
floor…
JASON
So
are you saying that my mind is like one big filing cabinet… like in ‘Bruce
Almighty’ when he opens the filing cabinet for all of his thoughts?
AARON
(Surprised)
Erm… Yes… wow, you grasped that concept easily… usually people take a while to
get their head around it (laughs).
JASON
Yeah
well, this is a dream or something anyway… I’m going to wake up in my bed
anytime soon and this whole weird thing will be over…
AARON
Ah,
I see… you’re in denial still… don’t worry we can soon fix that…
AARON walks over to
JASON and grabs his arm
JASON
What
are you doing?!
AARON pinches JASON
– who cries out in pain
JASON
What
did you do that for?!
AARON
I’m
showing you that you aren’t asleep… the quicker you realise that… the quicker
we can get some reliable information from you and get you back to normal!
JASON
(Shocked)
Oh… erm… Ok then, well I was doing a lot of Chemistry Course-
AARON
No,
we don’t need all that; we just need the information just before you lost
consciousness…
JASON
Oh,
right, OK then… well I ran around a corner too fast and didn’t realise the car
was there… it hit me on my left side and I think I hit my head on the way down…
the last thing I remember was staring up at the sky…
AARON
(Cheerfully)
OK… Is that it?
JASON
Yeah
I think so…
AARON
Well
that is very good Jason, lots of people can’t remember much, or they remember
crap that may not even be true…
JASON
Oh…
well, erm… thanks?
AARON
Don’t
worry about it, now your body will take around eight weeks to heal your cuts,
bruises and broken bones…
JASON
Wait?!
What?! I’m not that badly injured am I?!
AARON
Well…
erm… yes you are…
JASON
Why
can’t I feel the pain now then?!
AARON
Well
I kept the pain at bay, so that you could stay unconscious and we can set to
work repairing your body… When you wake up, you will feel horrible and you will
need to get to hospital as soon as possible… You never know… you may have
already been taken there… I’ve been talking to you this whole time so I have no
idea…
JASON
What?!
NO! I want out! Get me out of here! (starts banging walls and getting irate) I
want to get to a hospital NOW!
AARON
Ok…
QUICKLY FADES TO
WHITE
EXT. – INDUSTRIAL
UNIT – AFTERNOON
A point of view shot
– from JASON – is looking up at the sky with many people crowding around JASON.
JASON
Wha-
What happened?
MAN#1
You
were hit by a car…
FADES TO BLACK, BUT
SOUND OF THE STREET CONTINUES
END CREDITS: Starring Kieran Tyler as Jason
And Jay Dobinson as Aaron
Co-starring Lee Arnold as Ben
And James Rose as Jimmy
Written, Directed and Produced
by Kieran Tyler
Cinematography by Kieran Tyler
and Rudi Sampat
A Lone Warrior Film
Lifeless
Candidate Number: 9227
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